A new committee is pushing to have presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden choose Michelle Obama, the former first lady, as his running mate.
“Michelle Obama is the most trusted and most well-liked woman in America. She’s seen as politically above the fray and would be tremendous asset to Democrats up and down the ballot this November,” Clyde Lederman, campaign manager for the Committee to Draft Michelle Obama, told The Epoch Times on Monday.
Biden, 77, twice in recent weeks said he would love to have Obama as a running mate but noted that he doubts she would be interested. His wife Jill Biden said during an appearance on CNN’s “New Day” in late April that she would also love to have Obama join the campaign.
“I think she’s had it with politics,” Biden said, adding: “She’s so good at everything she does. That would be wonderful.”
The Committee to Draft Michelle Obama hopes to create media buzz while the panel is looking at possible running mates for Biden, Lederman said. They also hope to encourage Obama to run.

“The aim of this campaign is to build on the substantial grassroots support for a potential Michelle Obama candidacy and help garner media attention for a vice-presidential nominee who has the power to beat Donald Trump,” the group said in a press release.
The committee is sponsored by or receiving support from Mack Wilbourn, president of Mack II; Sidney Topol, board member of WGBH-TV; Bill Batson, former director of the New York Civil Liberties Union; and Tito Jackson, a former Boston mayoral candidate. Some other prominent Democrats will be joining the effort soon, according to Lederman.